Could be. The configuration is not <div>anything I did. Some of it seems to</div><div>date from when I set up the system.</div><div>Something found my ISP, via the </div><div>Ethernet connection, and presumably</div><div>
set things accordingly.</div><div><br></div><div>As I said, I commented out a few things</div><div>in the dhcpcd and wicd areas, so maybe</div><div>that will override the changes....</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div>
<div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Michael Mol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
That depends on if you have your dhcp client configured to control it.<br>
<br>
I'm not familiar with wicd.<br>
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On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Eric Hartwell <<a href="mailto:eric@erichartwell.net">eric@erichartwell.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> What device is giving out DHCP addresses? That device writes to resolv.conf<br>
> when your computer requests and IP.<br>
><br>
><br>
> - eah<br>
> On Aug 9, 2010, at 8:26 PM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> I changed my nameserver entries<br>
> in /etc/resolv.conf to use Google's.<br>
> Much faster.<br>
> But something keeps changing it<br>
> back to Comcast's entries. Often.<br>
> I can see that there are resolv.conf<br>
> entries in several places, including<br>
> /var/lib/dhcpcd and /var/lib/wicd.<br>
> Not what I want.<br>
> Can someone provide a short word<br>
> salad about how the resolv.conf entry<br>
> in /etc/ is managed, and suggest how<br>
> I go about overriding the changes?<br>
> I can always tell when my changes are<br>
> overwritten, because things slow down.<br>
> -- Bob<br>
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